Bilsana Bibic (Montenegro) joined ESI in June 2015. She graduated from St. Johnís College, NM, USA in 2013 and began working with the Center for Monitoring and Research in Podgorica, researching reform of higher education, gender equality and corruption. During her year at CeMI, she also assisted with grant writing and participated in an ENEMO election observation mission to Ukraine. Bilsana has extensive experience in working with underprivileged children and youth. She co-drafted and co-led an intensive four-week project focusing on conflict resolution in the Republic of Georgia and assisted in constructing a mentoring program prototype for at-risk youth in New Mexico. She is currently pursuing a double-degree Masters at the University of Glasgow and the Jagiellonian University.

Alan Grant is an Irish photographer who travelled extensively in the Balkans and other countries and regions of the world. Thanks to him, ESI is able to show fascinating pictures of the Balkans: the facades of Tirana, the painted mosques of Travnik, the fabulous old houses of Plovdiv and the spectacular blue of water - dark in the Bay of Kotor, emerald in the river valleys of Bosnia, deep blue in Ohrid, twinkling in the Aegean Sea and on the Bosporus.

Jonathan Lewis lives between London and Istanbul. He moved to London and spent many years studying photography and now specialises in photojournalism, documentary photography and commercial work for a wide variety of private and commercial clients in the UK, Europe and Turkey. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and publications and is used on the ESI website as well.